Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2004 1:22 pm Post subject: I took the plunge... and it is great

I took the plunge and it worked very well.
I used emerge -uD world and it found the
other related packages needed to build and
support xorg-x11, in a version 6.8.0.

The current XF86Config was attempted to be patched with
the best stuff needed for xorg. That was pretty close except
for the keyboard. I didn't need to build a mesalib from
their source (possibly included in the current xorg?), and
I now have glxgears and glxinfo working for the first time!

I get between 95 and 120 FPS from glxgears, running
a 300 Mhz Ultra 60 with Elite 3D m3 video.

In case it helps anyone else, here is my config file
for xorg (includes depreciated keyboard settings
which are currently required for Sun keyboard
and a 2.4 kernel) :

With xorg-x11-6.8.0-r1, you no longer need to rebuild libGL from mesa source if you want any sort of reasonable performance with Elite3d (m3 or m6).
The 95--120 FPS you see is probably optimal for 300MHz CPUs and afb (Elite).